Journal of Peace Research Replication Datasets The Journal of Peace Research, published by PRIO (The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo), publishes the datasets for its articles on its website. Datasets are available from the current issue back to January 1998, vol. 35, no. 1. Carleton community members, consult the Journals List for access to this…
CSCW Datasets The Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), part of the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), in Oslo, Norway provides public access to their research datasets. “CSCW has developed a set of datasets for use in the study of the determinants of armed conflict. In addition, CSCW has adapted several other datasets…
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) A database of over 100 political, economic, social, and cultural indicators for 196 countries drawn from open sources. “The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures. Currently, the data set includes measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic…
Political Terror Scale, 1980-2004 A scale of 1-5 measuring government terror or the level of citizens’ fear of government persecution. Good for: Measuring levels of political violence. Geographic coverage: 208 countries plus regions and groupings based on income and indebtedness. Time period: 1980-2004 Documentation: Discussion of the scale, Scale notes. Citation: Gibney, Mark. 2004. Political…
Pippa Norris (Harvard) Exceptionally valuable global indicators datasets and their documentation being shared by this scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Global Indicators Shared Dataset Variables: Over 700. Use the codebook. Geographic Coverage: 191 nations
Maplecroft’s Global Maps series announced two new maps today. Maplecroft’s Global map of aid explores the contributions made by developed country governments and their role in development, specifically the Millennium Development Goals. It is intimately linked with the map of debt through the issue of debt relief, the advantages and disadvantages of which are discussed…
Transparency International is an important source of information on corruption in countries around the world. It is a non-partisan, civil society organization composed of a network of 90 local chapters that fight corruption through advocacy campaigns, lobbying, and promotion of transparency in elections, public adminstration, procurement and business. Perhaps the most important publication is the…
The World Bank’s Governance Site provides full access to the Governance Indicators: 1996-2004 dataset used in the 2005 paper “Governance Matters IV: Governance Indicators for 1996-2004” by D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay, and M. Mastruzzi. The site offers several means of interactively accessing the data along with download in Excel format. Especially useful to students in…
An inventory of over 140 datasets measuring quality of institutions, governance, and corruption. Only datasets that are available to the public are described and placed in an easy-to-use matrix. We can thank Daniel Kaufmann for this invaluable tool.
Paul Hensel’s International Relations Data Site is my favorite place to start a search for IR data or statistics. Searchable and very well organized, every source is annotated with study-level description, spatial-temporal scope and variables included. Categories are: International data (general) International conflict and cooperation data International economic data International environmental data International political data…